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Seymour-Screen Excellence Introduces Industry’s First Color Temperature-Tunable Back-Lighting Kit for Film Screens
The perfect complement to the ambient light-rejecting film screen and high-brightness projector in a darkened room setting, the kit can be calibrated to achieve a true 6,500K hue behind and around the film screen, regardless of the wall color. The subsequent improvement in contrast is aesthetically pleasing and helps reduce eye fatigue, making for an enhanced cinematic experience.
Ames, Iowa – May 23, 2018 – Reference-grade film screen brand Seymour-Screen Excellence has brought to market the CEDIA channel’s first-ever tunable white bias lighting kit. The offering is unique in that it can be adjusted from 3,000K to 20,000K to achieve a true 6,500K Kelvin color temperature Properly-calibrated back-lighting (also known as hue) behind and around the film screen serves to improve contrast and reduce eye strain. This is especially useful when combining a high-brightness projector with an ambient light-rejecting (ALR) film screen in a darkened room setting.
“Lighting kits have become popular among film screen and HDTV users, however much of the ones available on the market actually contaminate the video experience because they simply project primary or secondary colors onto the wall. For video purists like us, this looks so ridiculous. We jokingly refer to them as ‘dancing UFO lights,’” quips Seymour-Screen Excellence Managing Director Chris Seymour.
“Understanding that the vast majority of homeowners aren’t painting their room walls a D65 color, we set out to design a solution that could compensate for their wall color and make high dynamic range (HDR) and high-brightness viewing less fatiguing. Now when the homeowner gets their projected image calibrated, their calibrator can find the bias light setting for a true 6,500K,” added Seymour.

Today’s advancements in surround technology are increasingly complex. The Cinema Designer is a vital tool that plays an important role in helping integrators to create winning entertainment rooms for their clients. This new association nicely complements the recent integration of native 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos processing across the StormAudio preamp/processor line.
Free webinar trainings covering the entire Cinema Designer program are available for StormAudio dealers.
Saint-Herblain, FRANCE – April 27, 2018 – StormAudio today announced that its full suite of immersive audio preamp / processors and amplifiers are now part of The Cinema Designer program, enabling StormAudio dealers enrolled in the program to design and present theater and media room layouts in an extremely professional yet easy to create manner.
The Cinema Designer is a cloud-based design tool that pulls from a large database of participating CI manufacturers’ products to calculate and produce 3D CAD drawings, specifying the precise location of the loudspeakers, screen, seating, projector, crucial amplification and processor requirements, acoustic treatments, RT60 value, and more. The tool generates detailed documents including audio and video calibration reports, and true-to-room aesthetic renders reflecting the way the finished room will look.
“The StormAudio audio processors and amplifiers can drive up 32-channel theaters and now we have integrated native 9.1.6 Dolby Atmos processing across the line. As audio system configurations become more complex to achieve such new heights in surround sound entertainment, a tool like The Cinema Designer is particularly useful for integrators,” says Sebastien Gailleton, StormAudio Product Marketing Director (International). “We are excited to be included as a manufacturer brand inside the software.”

Ihiji Invision, the leading platform for Remote Systems Management for Home Technology Professionals, was inducted into the 2017 CEDIA Product Hall of Fame for its transformative impact on the CEDIA industry
Austin, TX & San Diego, CA (September 7, 2017) – Ihiji Invision, the leading solution in Remote Systems Management (RSM) solutions for technology integrators since 2009, was inducted into the CEDIA Product Hall Of Fame at the CEDIA tradeshow in San Diego, CA. Ihiji pioneered the category of remote monitoring and continues to lead the industry eight years later. The CEDIA Product Hall of Fame inductees are selected by a panel of home technology professional judges and this distinction is awarded to products that have transformed the CEDIA industry.
When introduced to the market, Ihiji Invision was the first remote monitoring product designed specifically for home technology professionals. At that time, the home network was beginning to emerge as the foundation of the connected home and Ihiji was preparing for the exponential growth of connected devices and the network that supports those devices. The award is a recognition of the transformative nature of the product and the continued evolution of the category. Looking forward to the future, Ihiji announced at CEDIA 2017 the next generation of RSM with Ihiji ProVue alongside the continued growth of its Device Visibility Protocol and the introduction of a new pricing model.
“The Hall Of Fame award is a great honor and we are proud to have pioneered such an innovative product and business model for CEDIA home technology professionals,” states Stuart Rench, CEO of Ihiji. “Our team has committed an enormous amount of energy into the continuous evolution of the product category with the introduction of Ihiji ProVue. We are grateful for the recognition and the support of our dealers.”
To learn more about the new pricing and the award-winning Ihiji solutions and services, see Ihiji at CEDIA in booth #3329...

Audio Excellence – the Home Theater Sound System Series from Screen Excellence – Makes its North American Debut at 2017 CEDIA Expo
Screen Excellence CEO Patrice Congard -- known as the originator of the modern, woven-fabric acoustically transparent film screen and also a seasoned loudspeaker designer -- has developed the Audio Excellence Series. Created to complement the A.T. film screen, the components consist of limited-range high-SPL speakers used as LCRs behind the film screen and as surrounds, subwoofers and rack-mountable multi-channel amplifiers and DSP crossovers.
The Audio Excellence systems employ Patrice’s approach to loudspeaker design, layout logic and signal routing, all influenced from his experience in the pro audio world. Leveraged by the “Congard Code”, a simplistic home theater sound system design approach that maximizes the initial wavefront from the LCR, the systems deliver what Patrice claims is “the most realistic and powerful bass response achieved in a home theater sound system today.”
Audio Excellence will be demonstrated at Expo with booth partners Seymour-Screen Excellence and Wolf Projectors (main floor, booth #4947). Patrice will be on-hand throughout to meet with dealers and reps and discuss all aspects of the system and his philosophy.
Rendlesham-Suffolk, England – August 23, 2017 – Acoustically transparent-specialized film screen brand Screen Excellence will tap CEDIA Expo to debut its Audio Excellence series in the US. Shipping abroad since last year, and now available for sale in North America, the series consists of several limited-range loudspeakers, subwoofers, rack-mountable multi-channel amplifiers and DSP crossovers that can accommodate from 5.1 to complete 3D audio setups. The systems are designed to create the kind of continuous, high sound pressure levels and exacting bass experienced in commercial cinemas. All the components are rich in build quality and performance, competitively-priced and supported by a....